History/social studies

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.

Connell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn.

Gombrich, E. H. The Story of Art, 16th Edition.

Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.

Haskins, Jim. Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War.

Dash, Joan. The Longitude Prize.

Thompson, Wendy. The Illustrated Book of Great Composers.

Mann, Charles C. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491.

Science, mathematics, and technical subjects

Euclid. Elements.

Cannon, Annie J. “Classifying the Stars.”

Walker, Jearl. “Amusement Park Physics.”

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story.

Devlin, Keith. Life by the Numbers.

Hoose, Phillip. The Race to Save Lord God Bird.
Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Newton at the Center.

Nicastro, Nicholas. Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/U.S. Department of Energy. Recommended Levels of Insulation.